Name that decade!
Scopes "Monkey" Trial, KKK, speakeasies, Harlem Renaissance
1920s
Pearl Harbor, D-Day, Stalingrad, atomic bombs, Battle of the Bulge
1940s
First satellite launched by the Soviets in 1957
Sputnik
Increased defense spending, Iran-Contra scandal, given credit for ending the Cold War, supply-side
Ronald Reagan
25% unemployment, bank closings, the New Deal, trustbusting, Hoovervilles, Dust Bowl
trustbusting
JFK assassination, Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, Martin Luther King assassination, Apollo 11, Tet Offensive
1960s
Truman Doctrine, Berlin Airlift, NATO, creation of the United Nations
1940s
First motion picture with sound
The Jazz Singer
1965 Voting Rights Act, Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, president after JFK's assassination, Great Society
Lyndon Johnson
Bomb shelters, duck and cover drills, Vietnamization, McCarthyism, Alger Hiss, the Rosenbergs
Vietnamization
Rosenbergs executed, Korean War, McCarthyism, Brown vs. Board of Education, NASA
1950s
Fall of Saigon, Detente, Watergate, stagflation, energy crisis
1970s
First American female astronaut and first female Supreme Court justice
Sally Ride and Sandra Day O'Connor
World War II hero, Korean War ended, Federal-Aid Highway Act, domino theory, U-2 incident
Dwight Eisenhower
Baby boom, GI Bill, the Fourteen Points, Marshall Plan, division of Germany, Levittowns
the Fourteen Points
Berlin Wall comes down, Iran-Contra Scandal, Challenger disaster, Reaganomics
1980s
Spanish American War, Hawaii annexed, McKinley elected, Wounded Knee
1890s
Meeting place of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads to complete the first transcontinental railroad
Promontory Point, Utah
NAFTA, Dayton Accords, impeachment, U.S.S. Cole
Bill Clinton
9-11, War on Terror, Operation Desert Storm, Afghanistan, Iraq, Homeland Security
Operation Desert Storm
Hoovervilles, New Deal, Dust Bowl, fireside chats, World War II begins
1930s
Radios, "talkies", prosperity, Model T, flappers, stock market crash
1920s
President who made the decision to drop the first atomic bomb
Harry Truman
Persian Gulf War (Desert Storm), end of the Cold War , "Read my lips, No new taxes"
George H. W. Bush
Pentagon Papers, My Lai Massacre, containment in Southeast Asia, LBJ, Nixon, Midway, Kent State
Midway